CoR’s need for leadership

European Voice

2/12/14, 8:00 PM CET

Updated 4/15/14, 4:07 PM CET

The Committee of the Regions is to re-advertise the post of secretary-general to replace Gerhard Stahl, who is to retire this year. The CoR had chosen Andrä Rupprechter, an Austrian official working in the secretariat of the Council of Ministers, but in December he was made a minister in Austria’s new government. The CoR’s discontinuities could be compounded if, as now seems likely, the president also changes: Ramón Luis Valcárcel, the current president, who heads the Spanish regional government of Murcia, is expected to be a candidate of the centre-right Partido Popular for election to the European Parliament.